obraniti

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• odbrániti (Bosnia)

Etymology

From o- +‎ braniti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /obrǎːniti/
• Hyphenation: o‧bra‧ni‧ti

Verb

obrániti pf (Cyrillic spelling обра́нити)

1. (Croatia, reflexive, transitive) to defend

   Antonym: nàpasti

Conjugation

Conjugation of obraniti

Infinitive: obraniti		Present verbal adverb: —		Past verbal adverb: obránīvši		Verbal noun: —
Number		Singular			Plural
Person		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
Verbal forms		ja	ti	on / ona / ono	mi	vi	oni / one / ona
Present		obranim	obraniš	obrani	obranimo	obranite	obrane
Future	Future I	obranit ću1 obraniću	obranit ćeš1 obranićeš	obranit će1 obraniće	obranit ćemo1 obranićemo	obranit ćete1 obranićete	obranit će1 obraniće
	Future II	bȕdēm obranio2	bȕdēš obranio2	bȕdē obranio2	bȕdēmo obranili2	bȕdēte obranili2	bȕdū obranili2
Past	Perfect	obranio sam2	obranio si2	obranio je2	obranili smo2	obranili ste2	obranili su2
	Pluperfect3	bȉo sam obranio2	bȉo si obranio2	bȉo je obranio2	bíli smo obranili2	bíli ste obranili2	bíli su obranili2
	Aorist	obranih	obrani	obrani	obranismo	obraniste	obraniše
Conditional I		obranio bih2	obranio bi2	obranio bi2	obranili bismo2	obranili biste2	obranili bi2
Conditional II4		bȉo bih obranio2	bȉo bi obranio2	bȉo bi obranio2	bíli bismo obranili2	bíli biste obranili2	bíli bi obranili2
Imperative		—	obrani	—	obranimo	obranite	—
Active past participle		obranio m / obranila f / obranilo n			obranili m / obranile f / obranila n
Passive past participle		obranjen m / obranjena f / obranjeno n			obranjeni m / obranjene f / obranjena n
1   Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic. 2   For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively. 3   Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped. 4   Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.   *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.

Related terms

• ȍbrana

Further reading

• “obraniti” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Etymology

From o- +‎ branīti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔbranìːti/, /ɔbraníːti/

Verb

obranīti pf

1. to defend (ward off attack)
2. to defend (an idea, opinion)

Inflection

-iti -im (AP b)
infinitive	obranīti, obrániti
1st singular	obránim
infinitive	obranīti, obrániti			obránit
supine	obránit
verbal noun	obránjenje
	participle			converb
present	—			—
past	obránjen			—
l-participle	masculine		feminine		neuter
singular	obránił		obranȋla		obranílo
dual	obraníla		obraníli		obraníli
plural	obraníli		obraníle		obraníla
	present			imperative
1st singular	obránim			—
2nd singular	obrániš			obráni
3rd singular	obráni			—
1st dual	obrániva			obrániva, obranȋva
2nd dual	obránita			obránita, obranȋta
3rd dual	obránita			—
1st plural	obránimo			obránimo, obranȋmo
2nd plural	obránite			obránite, obranȋte
3rd plural	obránijo			—

Derived terms

• obrȃmba

Further reading

• “obraniti”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran